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...Harold and Maude, Friday and Saturday...
...Harold and Maude. A great box office success, presumably because of group of semi-zombies each saw the thing 350 times. With music by the didactic Cat Stevens...
...Year. Governments changed with what seemed a manic rapidity. Israel's Golda Meir left office, replaced by Yitzhak Rabin. Japan's Kakuei Tanaka resigned amid scandal, with Takeo Miki succeeding him. Western Europe seemed beset by Fraktionspolitik. Great Britain deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government...
...wish was to release myself from the incredible pressures being put on me, particularly in my business activities and various attempts at blackmail." Thus, in a strangely unrepentant, even jaunty mood, did Labor M.P. and International Financier John Stonehouse explain in a telegram to Prime Minister Harold Wilson a mysterious disappearance that for 33 days had Britain buzzing with rumor and speculation (see TIME, Dec. 30). Last seen on Nov. 20 setting off for a jog on the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel and since then widely presumed to have drowned, Stonehouse had been variously alleged...
...Comedian Jack Benny the pauses were always more eloquent than the gags. When he died last week of cancer, Benny had become the grand master of comic timing; like Playwrights Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, he had built a career around silence...